guy Posted 20 hours ago Report Share Posted 20 hours ago A nice review of the myths surrounding Pompeii’s destruction: https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/7-pompeii-secrets-discoveries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guidoLaMoto Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago (edited) Pliny the Younger's follow up letter to Tacitus describing his personal experience with the eruption gives some insight to the psychology of those faced with the impending disaster and ambivalence about escaping. https://www.pompeiin.com/en/Pliny_the_Younger_files/2LetterToTacitus.pdf The Latin text https://lingualatina.github.io/texts/browsable/pliny/6.20/ Edited 1 hour ago by guidoLaMoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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